The Hitman…er…Taxman Cometh

ALOHA, ALL!! As soon as IRS-Gate broke, I immediately thought that there could be a silver lining….that it would derail the implementation of Obamacare. Now we’re seeing all over the press and especially the blogosphere that this could indeed be the case. Thursday, the House voted 229-195 to repeal Obamacare. Is it a symbolic vote with no teeth? Of course…at least for now. But if the IRS scandal continues to grow, look for the GOP to use the Dems’ support for Obamacare against them in 2014. As this festers and gets more ugly, the GOP will have a good chance to win the Senate next year. Rendering the Emperor Who Has No Clothes utterly powerless. If he lasts that long. And the IRS implementing Obamacare? That’s coming close to being on life support. And did you catch Obama’s dodge when asked if anyone in the White House knew about IRS targeting? Check it (watch to 2:25):

Pretty slick, huh? First he hems & haws. Then he slaps Marines in the face, basically calling them props. Then he answers a question that wasn’t asked. Your crap isn’t working anymore, Barry.

This afternoon the White House released 100 pages of emails that trace the development of the talking points about Benghazi that Susan Rice eventually used on her notorious tour of the Sunday morning news shows, and that formed the basis for much of what the Obama administration said about the attacks for weeks afterward. This is the original version of the talking points that came out of the CIA, with »

It may be too optimistic to wonder if commencement speech to the graduating students of Ohio State University (White House video here) might not have represented the high tide of Obamaism. It didn’t occur to me at the time, but I wonder if it might not be (bumpily, with the implementation of Obamacare before us) downhill from here: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as »

The IRS is deeply political — and very Democratic.“More than 75 percent of the campaign contributions from Cincinnati office in the past three elections went to Democrats. In 2012, every donation traceable to employees at that office went to either President Obama or liberal Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. The IRS officials whose names appear in the IG report are also Democrats with partisan histories. William Wilkins, IRS general counsel and one of the agency’s two explicitly political appointees, is a former Democratic congressional aide, lobbyist (clients included the Swiss Bankers Association), and Democratic donor. Joseph H. Grant, who ran the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division that includes the Cincinnati office, is a former Democratic staffer on the House Ways & Means Committee.”

Obama Finds Use for Marines (Hillary Used Them to Hold Food Platters at White House Soirees) Important to note: According to Marine Corps regulation MCO P1020.34F of the Marine Corps Uniform Regulations chapter 3, a male Marine is not allowed to carry an umbrella while in uniform. There is no provision in the Marine Corps uniform regulation guidelines that allows a male Marine to carry an umbrella. But why would Barry, the Commander in Chief, care about that?

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